290 Quotes About Civil-war

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

As in a longstanding civil war—art, religion, and all the other foot soldiers of history march with feet rising in contradiction and falling to the drumbeat of reconciliation toward a shared fate: a final battle and a final peace.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

Slavery never ended in America, it was only extended to people of all races.

Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.